Social media & online abuse analysis, natural language processing. I also blog about adventure & travel: https://xitter.cf/t.co/NcZJdNFEtD
Sheffield, UK
Joined June 2009
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Funded PhD position available with me (and other supervisors) based in the School of Biosciences, looking at measuring impact of food systems chemicals on health. @sheffieldnlp @shefcompsci findaphd.com/phds/project/ec…
A lovely welcome from CARMA participants yesterday. Happy to be in a very hot Rome talking about our work on online abuse.
🎤 Keynote at CARMA 2025
We’re honored to welcome Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield) with a powerful opening talk:
🧠 "Misogyny, Disinformation and Democratic Backsliding: the World of Online Toxicity"
#carma2025 #keynote #misinformation #onlineabuse #socialscience
Excited to be talking this evening about the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media at the University's public engagement event "Pint of Science". It's not often I get to give talks in pubs about my research. pintofscience.co.uk/event/sa…
Come and work with us! We have a part-time RA post on Computational Social Science / Journalism looking at data on abuse against journalists jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU035/resear… @CFOMsheff @SheffieldNLP
A lovely report from our latest @ATRIUM_EU #TNA visitor Tenia about her research visit to our @GateAcUk team @SheffieldNLP to study NLP applications in food research. @shefcompsci gate4ugc.blogspot.com/2025/0…
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We’re hiring! The Centre for Machine Intelligence at the University of Sheffield is seeking an Academic Fellow in AI for Health. This 3-year Fellowship offers the chance to conduct cutting-edge research.
Find out more: sheffield.ac.uk/machine-inte…
Deadline: Thurs 18 Feb
#AI #AIjobs
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📰First Keynote Speaker for CARMA2025 Conference! We are extremely delighted to announce that Dr. Diana Maynard will be our first keynote speaker at the CARMA2025 conference in Rome!
carmaconf.org/keynote-speake…
@dianamaynard @sheffielduni
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New report: "Academic Access to Social Media Data for the Study of Political Online Safety", w. @georgidag @Ben_OLoughlin: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7p…
As new threats reach the social media environment, platforms continue to obstruct independent research. It’s time to act!
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We are excited to have @dianamaynard as a keynote speaker at the next @carmaconf in Rome!
📰First Keynote Speaker for CARMA2025 Conference! We are extremely delighted to announce that Dr. Diana Maynard will be our first keynote speaker at the CARMA2025 conference in Rome!
carmaconf.org/keynote-speake…
@dianamaynard @sheffielduni
There's still a couple of weeks to apply for a fully funded TNA research visit with our team in Sheffield, working on a project combining NLP and social sciences/digital humanities.
Interested in learning more about the ATRIUM TNA (Transnational Access) Scheme? 👀
Want to find out what a placement at a leading data management institution across Europe might look like? 💡
Read first-hand testimonials over on our TNA Blog! ✍️
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Excited to announce that our first Retrotones album "Bad Romancing" was released yesterday, and with it our first video! Here's our take on (a slightly different!) Lady Gaga's Bad Romance youtu.be/-kxpRATqLNw?si=Wk7d… #theretrotones #cre8ivestatio
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🗳️Our next online event is taking place next week! Join us @sheffjournalism for three presentations on: Elections, Disinformation and Journalism: Taking Stock of 2024
📅5 December
🕒3pm UK Time
Sign up here: tickettailor.com/events/cent…
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Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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theguardian.com/commentisfre…
A little taster of our upcoming Legends concert in Sheffield on 7 December. Here's us rehearsing, with our best Elvis impression. youtube.com/watch?v=OW_wW3k7…
@Cre8iveStation #hunkahunka
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The CFOM Online Seminar Series is back! Leading libel solicitor David Hooper will be talking to us about his experience surrounding being subject to #SLAPPs and how we can tackle them moving forwards. Sign up below!
📅7 November
⏰3pm UK Time
tickettailor.com/events/cent…
And here's a song I wrote in 1987, which has never been performed publicly until yesterday's concert! Nerves slightly got the better of me, but I'm my own worst critic. youtu.be/MyfAync3QRo?si=BT-4… via @YouTube
Yesterday I was lucky enough to get to perform the Skye Boat Song with my choir at our Project Sing concert in Manchester Cathedral youtu.be/wiF0PuNJ-E0?si=Boct… via @YouTube
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🎙️New episode of the CFOM podcast is now available! We talk to @fiona_obrien @skcoughtrie and @pcoelaw about the impact of SLAPPs on journalists, the threats that they pose to journalism and how we can try and tackle them @sheffjournalism. Listen here: cfom.org.uk/podcast/
